TINGTING

The midribs of palm leaves are dried and then bundled together to make a traditional Filipino walis (broom).

Witches Can’t Ride This Broom

The walis-tingting is similar in construction to how Western-style stick brooms are made in the sense of thin sticks being tied up to make a broom, but what distinguishes the Philippine from those in the west is that this has no stick handle. You therefore have to stoop or bend down when using this broom.

This is the broom used for cleaning the yard. The walis-tingting is used outdoors on rough surfaces, sometimes concrete, but most often on the bare ground. For the smooth surfaces indoors or on the patio, use the walis-tambo.

tingting
used to refer to a very thin person or thing

Para kang tingting.
You’re like a stick.
(You’re so thin.)

Spelling variation: tinting

Often misspelled with a hyphen as ting-ting.

In the current spelling rules of the Filipino language, if an element does not exist as a word by itself, there is no need to put a hyphen after it.

For example, there is no “ting” word, so there’s no need to use a hyphen when doubling the syllable.